Chapter 13. Home Screen Widgets
In this chapter, we will cover Android's home screen widgets in detail. Home screen widgets, like live folders, offer one more way of presenting frequently changing information on the home screen of Android. From a high-level perspective, home screen widgets are disconnected views (albeit populated with data) that are displayed on the home screen. The data content of these views is updated at regular intervals by background processes.
For example, an e-mail home screen widget might alert you to the number of outstanding e-mails to be read. However, please note that the widget will just show you the "count" of the e-mails and not the e-mails themselves. Clicking on the e-mail count will then take you to the activity ...
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